2024 Internet Archive outage & cyberattack
On October 10, 2024, the Internet Archive, a creative works library and archival website, suffered a distributed denial-of-service attack that rendered the website unusable. 31 million Internet Archive users' accounts have been affected by the attack. News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after visitors to archive.org began seeing a JavaScript alert created by a hacker group that goes by the name of @Sn_darkmeta on X (formerly Twitter,) it went for the longest downtime for 4 days. stating that the Internet Archive was breached. [1]
Finally, on October 21, 2024, the website came back online but read-only no new posts for a while. However, login, video playback, and other features currently do not work. On October 29, 2024, all of the Internet Archive servers are finally backed up, but a few features still didn't work, which these features are fixed now.[2] On November 4, 2024, the website came back can edit and upload login returned. On November 11, 2024, users can now upload content to archive.org and comment again.